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The Cliff-Dwellers

by: Henry Blake Fuller

Publication date: 2020-01-27
Usage: Public Domain Mark 1.0
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, history, Chicago, city, capitalism, skyscrapers, cliff-dwellers
Language: English
Item Size: 1.2G

LibriVox recording of The Cliff-Dwellers by Henry Blake Fuller.

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Between the former site of old Fort Dearborn and the present site of our newest Board of Trade there lies a restricted yet tumultuous territory through which, during the course of the last fifty years, the rushing streams of commerce have worn many a deep and rugged chasm. These great canons—conduits, in fact, for the leaping volume of an ever-increasing prosperity—cross each other with a sort of systematic rectangularity, and in deference to the practical directness of local requirements they are in general called simply—streets. Each of these canons is closed in by a long frontage of towering cliffs, and these soaring walls of brick and limestone and granite rise higher and higher with each succeeding year, according as the work of erosion at their bases goes onward—the work of that seething flood of carts, carriages, omnibuses, cabs, cars, messengers, shoppers, clerks, and capitalists, which surges with increasing violence for every passing day. Summary by HENRY B. FULLER.

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M4B Audiobook (205MB)

Addeddate: 2020-01-27 22:45:40
Call number: 13858
External-identifier: urn:storj:bucket:jvrrslrv7u4ubxymktudgzt3hnpq:cliffdwellers_2001_librivox
Identifier: cliffdwellers_2001_librivox
Ocr: ABBYY FineReader 11.0 (Extended OCR)
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Ocr_module_version: 0.0.14
Ppi: 600
Run time: 7:28:23
Year: 2020